Biography

Hazel Jopling

The following Information was submitted by the artist, February 2004:

Hazel Jopling explains her work, "My own interest in mixed media work has been heightened by the works of Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, and Joseph Beuys; artists who innovated the use of "cultural signifiers" and other banal materials to make art. It is in this tradition, and with this consciousness, that I have chosen to work with discarded Styrofoam packaging materials."

Hazel Savad Jopling's style began in the late 1970's, when after some major purchases for her new home, she found polystyrene packaging material commonly referred to as Styrofoam, piling up in her garage. Polystyrene packaging comes in two primary forms; loose fill "peanuts" and sh ... Displaying 750 of 5062 characters.

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